12:35 pmTom Robbins came up last night in conversation with gemlikeflame wrt making love stay. I was reminded by this lovely quote from Still Life With Woodpecker:

Violence stinks, no matter which end of it you're on. But now and thenthere's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with afrying pan. Sometimes people are just begging for that frypan, and if weweaken for a moment and honor their request, we should regard it asimpulsive philanthropy, which we aren't in any position to afford, butshouldn't regret it too loudly lest we spoil the purity of the deed.

His thoughts on making love stay are as follows:

1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.

2. Tell love you want a memento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.